Talcum Powder Delight
Bringing you home
Talcum powder delight
Our first bath
Healthy lungs
Growing appetite
Huge expectations
Your future forseen
World of possibilities
Lump in my throat
Aching inner-heart strings
Love and fear
Such ferocious emotion
Our little princess
Bending hearts and minds
Building an empire of devotion
To your beckoning
Every cry and kiss
Such painful anticipation
Always worrying
What we might miss
Just can’t conceive
Leaving you alone
Fed, burped and bathed
By someone else
In a strangers home
Author’s note:
This poem tries to capture some of the hopes, dreams and delight the new baby brings into our lives, written in 2004.